Edward Skidelsky
Articles by Edward Skidelsky
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Books
Blood and soil. Russia - Edward Skidelsky enjoys a contentious cultural history
- 28 October 2002
Natasha's Dance
Orlando Figes Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 679pp, £25
ISBN 0713995173
Ideas
The philosopher of pessimism. John Gray is one of the most daring and original thinkers in Britain. But his new book, a bold, anti-humanist polemic, fails to convince Edward Skidelsky
- 02 September 2002
Straw Dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals
John Gray Granta Books, 240pp, £12.99
ISBN 1862075123
Ideas
The human question-mark. "Tell me what you need, and I'll supply you with the right Nietzsche quotation," a German satirist once quipped. Today, Nietzsche continues to be misread and misappropriated. Edward Skidelsky on the life and work of a thinker who, more than any other, succeeded in defining our disturbed modernity
- 17 June 2002
Nietzsche: a philosophical biography
Rudiger Safranski. Translated by Shelley Frisch Granta Books, 412pp, £25
ISBN 1862075069
Zarathustra's Secret: the interior life of Friedrich Nietzsche
Joachim Kohler. Translated by Ronald Taylor Yale University Press, 336pp, £19.95
Ideas
Murdering to dissect. For all the advances of science, we are no closer to understanding the essential mystery of the self. But perhaps the strange world of autism offers clues. By Edward Skidelsky
- 25 March 2002
The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking
Peter Hobson Macmillan, 296pp, £20
ISBN 0333766334
Books
Soul music. Edward Skidelsky enjoys a book that was a runaway bestseller in France
- 28 January 2002
A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life
Andre Comte-Sponville, translated by Catherine Temerson William Heinemann, 352pp, £15.99
ISBN 0434009687
Books
Human, all too human. Undying fidelity is the basic formula underpinning all fanaticism. Edward Skidelsky on the dilemmas of belief in a secular age
- 29 October 2001
Christ: a crisis in the life of God
Jack Miles William Heinemann, 383pp, £18.99
ISBN 0434007374
Books
A philosophical investigation. Britain was always on the margins of 20th-century intellectual life. Edward Skidelsky on how the French and the Germans won the battle of ideas
- 13 August 2001
Routledge Classics
Various authors
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Bogus philosophy. The ideal of the French philosophe de cafe, which owes so much to Sartre, retains a hold over our imagination. But, Edward Skidelsky writes, it has ceased to have any basis in reality
- 21 May 2001
- 1 comment
Ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil
Alain Badiou, translated by Peter Hallward Verso, 166pp, £18
ISBN 1859842976
Books
In defence of drugs. LSD, cocaine, opium: they are all just a bore, though good for relaxation and socialising. How did we ever come to invest them with such demonic properties? By Edward Skidelsky
- 30 April 2001
Dope Girls: the birth of the British drug underground
Marek Kohn Granta, 208pp, £8.99
ISBN 1862074062
Acid Dreams: the complete social history of LSD
Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain Pan Books, 384pp, £9.99
